单词 | crossing-place |
释义 | > as lemmascrossing-place crossing-place n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > place where something may be crossed ferry1286 passage?a1400 trajecta1552 crossing1632 trajection1637 pass1649 rack1659 crossing-place1763 river crossing1839 transit1852 1763 G. Washington Diaries I. 193 A common causay through at the crossing place would most certainly lay all that Arm dry. 1786 Mrs. Johnson Francis II. 43 Employed in procuring a clean crossing-place at the head of the Haymarket. 1832 R. Cox Adv. Columbia River xxiv. 249 The river at the crossing-place was between three and four hundred yards wide. 1847 C. Lanman Summer in Wilderness xiv. 86 There was a crossing place on the Mississippi, where a good marksman might take one almost any time. 1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xiii. 219 His forces..guarded the crossing-places from the falls at Trenton to below Bristol. < as lemmas |
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